Can't Plant Mutfruit

[Bronze Dragon]

I'm sorry, I'm really trying hard to like this game. Everyone keeps saying what a great game it is/was. But with trying to navigate a character who seems to want to start every move with a sidestep (making her walk into walls all the time), a gd dog that does nothing but whine and won't stay out from under foot, and now the learning curve on...well, pretty much everything...is all really making it very hard to get into.

Right now I'm on my first mission to plant crops, and I've managed to plant three without really understanding what I was doing. Now I have an inventory full of mutfruit (7), but it won't show up in the crafting menu to plant. I'm also struggling with figuring out how to assign workers to each crop, if you have any tips on that as well.

[Löthar Storm]

Shreds of Jun Long are what give the Warwick Estate a run for their money. Marcy Long, well, in the words of Dinosaur Bob "I have never hurt a ♥♥♥♥♥, that didn't have it comin' to 'er".

[Ihateeverybody]

Just want to add if you have some circuitry in inventory (I can't recall if this was scrapper perk related or available at all times) you can "Tag" the item and it should direct you to other items that when broken down, produce that resource.

Apologies in advance if I am misremembering and giving bad information.

[-={LG}=-]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

I use a mod that gives you a 'confessor' busy work station, and often enough jun gets that one.

He's prime material for an artillery post, too.

[Bronze Dragon]

Originally posted by -={LG}=-:

Originally posted by Bronze Dragon:

I Scrapped a couple of radios and TVs, you would've thought they had circuitry in them, but apparently not.

Cross the bridge from Sanctuary and follow the shoreline North, you'll find a robot disposal site. They have some military circuit boards. So does the radar station you'll probably see up there.

You can satisfy the security requirement by building guard stations. One guy can do three guard stations, so can put up three then assign Jun Long to them and you're golden. Just fortify the place later when you have more stuff. All it takes is wood and steel and you should have a ton of that if you cleared the place.

To see what item contains what materials, just go up to the workshop and hit "R" to transfer, then select "Junk." Now while you scroll down the list, anything you highlight with the mouse will show you what it's made of. There's also a way to tag things while you're doing that so they'll glow when you're out scrounging, but it's been so long since I needed to do that I forgot how.

Thanks for all that...very helpful.

[Bronze Dragon]

Thanks to all you guys I'm pretty much up and running in FO4. And, yes, I'm enjoying it...quite a bit, in fact. I come from Starfield, and I'm seeing a lot of what later went into that game, which I'm also enjoying immensely.

I do hope they mix it up a little in games to come, though. This routine of gathering resources, crafting, and lair/hideout/headquarters clearing is fine for a couple of games. But I can see it getting old if that's all their games turn out to be going forward.

[Material Defender]

A good source of plantable mutfruit is the fields in Diamond City. At least enough to get a farm of it.

[Bronze Dragon]

Originally posted by Material Defender:

A good source of plantable mutfruit is the fields in Diamond City. At least enough to get a farm of it.

Cool. Now that I've got momentum in the game, I'm in no hurry, so I haven't gotten to Diamond City yet. I'm sure I will. But for now, I'm following the missions as they crop up and not driving hard toward any specific destination or goal. I want to enjoy this experience.

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Bronze Dragon:

Thanks to all you guys I'm pretty much up and running in FO4. And, yes, I'm enjoying it...quite a bit, in fact. I come from Starfield, and I'm seeing a lot of what later went into that game, which I'm also enjoying immensely.

I do hope they mix it up a little in games to come, though. This routine of gathering resources, crafting, and lair/hideout/headquarters clearing is fine for a couple of games. But I can see it getting old if that's all their games turn out to be going forward.

Well, in my opinion, with 800+ hrs in Star Field and 4000+ in FO4, FO4 is a much better game than SF. In several ways.

Ship Building in SF is it's one exceptionally good content. But the companion system sucks and so does Outpost building. And the Main Quest is really bad.

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Material Defender:

A good source of plantable mutfruit is the fields in Diamond City. At least enough to get a farm of it.

Yes. And also Grey Garden. The robots there do not mind the player picking them.

[Bronze Dragon]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Originally posted by Bronze Dragon:

Thanks to all you guys I'm pretty much up and running in FO4. And, yes, I'm enjoying it...quite a bit, in fact. I come from Starfield, and I'm seeing a lot of what later went into that game, which I'm also enjoying immensely.

I do hope they mix it up a little in games to come, though. This routine of gathering resources, crafting, and lair/hideout/headquarters clearing is fine for a couple of games. But I can see it getting old if that's all their games turn out to be going forward.

Well, in my opinion, with 800+ hrs in Star Field and 4000+ in FO4, FO4 is a much better game than SF. In several ways.

Ship Building in SF is it's one exceptionally good content. But the companion system sucks and so does Outpost building. And the Main Quest is really bad.

I agree ALL the quests are quite linear. But I'm enjoying the game anyway, in a very sort of mindless card-solitaire sort of way.

[-={LG}=-]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Yes. And also Grey Garden. The robots there do not mind the player picking them.

Supervisor Brown will also buy them from you. You can hit Graygarden for your closest corn as well. And you've got tato from the first settlement quest. Now you've got all three plants for making vegetable starch, and by picking the corn all the time you will stockpile enough for your future settlements.

I only grow corn, tato and mutfruit ... at every settlement. Three of each per farmer.

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by -={LG}=-:

Originally posted by Zekiran:

I use a mod that gives you a 'confessor' busy work station, and often enough jun gets that one.

He's prime material for an artillery post, too.

more like loading *in* the artillery cannon..... Can fire Marcy, Preston and Mama Murphy across the commonwealth while we're at it...

[The Great Cornholio]

There are junk merchants that sell resource items - Carla that visits Sanctuary Hills, the female Diamond City merchant who is replaced at night by a robot, the diner near Red Rocket/Sanctuary Hills. Whenever you have a full inventory trade the guns you looted for what you need from them, then store it in the Sanctuary Hills workbench.

Telephones and hot plates are very common and have circuitry. You'll quickly learn what items matter. Anything with oil, aluminum, gears, circuitry, adhesive.

When you join one of the factions - Minutemen being one of them - you can get a couple of side quests at a time. Go do those, loot guns and resource items, trade guns for more resource items, go back to base and deposit junk in workbench. You'll have a good amount of stuff in a few hours. Also scrap all the trees and junk in Sanctuary Hills.